https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Trying-to-run-an-oozie-job-receiving-a-null-pointer/m-p/53096#M48846 <PRE>Properties file # Environment settings queueName = default kerberos_realm = A jobTracker = B:8032 nameNode = hdfs://nameservice1 hive2_server = C hive2_port = 10000 impala_server = D:21000 edge_server = E jobTracker = yarnrm # Project specific paths projectPath = /user/${user.name}/oozie/mediaroom-logs keyTabLocation = /user/${user.name}/keytabs # job path oozie.wf.application.path = ${projectPath}/BXDB/wf # Project specific jars and other libraries oozie.libpath = ${projectPath}/lib,${projectPath}/util # Standard useful properties oozie.use.system.libpath = true oozie.wf.rerun.failnodes = true # Keytab specifics keyTabName = A.keytab keyTabUsername = A focusNodeLoginIng = A focusNodeLogin = A # Email notification list emailList = B</PRE><PRE>xml file &lt;workflow-app xmlns="uri:oozie:workflow:0.4" name="bxdb"&gt; &lt;global&gt; &lt;job-tracker&gt;${jobTracker}&lt;/job-tracker&gt; &lt;name-node&gt;${nameNode}&lt;/name-node&gt; &lt;/global&gt; &lt;credentials&gt; &lt;credential name="hive2_credentials" type="hive2"&gt; &lt;property&gt; &lt;name&gt;hive2.jdbc.url&lt;/name&gt; &lt;value&gt;jdbc:hive2://${hive2_server}:${hive2_port}/default&lt;/value&gt; &lt;/property&gt; &lt;property&gt; &lt;name&gt;hive2.server.principal&lt;/name&gt; &lt;value&gt;hive/${hive2_server}@${kerberos_realm}&lt;/value&gt; &lt;/property&gt; &lt;/credential&gt; &lt;/credentials&gt; &lt;start to="sshFileTransfer"/&gt; &lt;action name="sshFileTransfer"&gt; &lt;ssh xmlns="uri:oozie:ssh-action:0.1"&gt; &lt;host&gt;${focusNodeLoginIng}&lt;/host&gt; &lt;!-- Change the name of the script --&gt; &lt;command&gt;/A/B/EsdToHDFS.sh&lt;/command&gt; &lt;args&gt;A&lt;/args&gt; &lt;args&gt; B&lt;/args&gt; &lt;args&gt; C&lt;/args&gt; &lt;capture-output /&gt; &lt;/ssh&gt; &lt;ok to="process-bxdb"/&gt; &lt;error to="sendEmailDQ_SRC"/&gt; &lt;/action&gt; &lt;!-- Move from landing zone on HDFS to processing --&gt; &lt;!-- Emit whether data is complete or partial, together with timestamp --&gt; &lt;!-- Spark job to process the snapshots and cdr data --&gt; &lt;action name="process-bxdb"&gt; &lt;spark xmlns="uri:oozie:spark-action:0.2"&gt; &lt;master&gt;yarn&lt;/master&gt; &lt;mode&gt;cluster&lt;/mode&gt; &lt;name&gt;Process BXDB&lt;/name&gt; &lt;class&gt;IngestBXDB&lt;/class&gt; &lt;jar&gt;bxdb_sproc_cataloguereport-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar&lt;/jar&gt; &lt;spark-opts&gt;--num-executors 8 --executor-cores 2 --executor-memory 4G --driver-memory 4g --driver-cores 2&lt;/spark-opts&gt; &lt;arg&gt;${nameNode}/user/hive/warehouse/belltv_lnd.db/bxdb_sproc_cataloguereport&lt;/arg&gt; &lt;arg&gt;Hello&lt;/arg&gt; &lt;arg&gt;World&lt;/arg&gt; &lt;/spark&gt; &lt;ok to="impala-refresh-iis"/&gt; &lt;error to="sendEmailDQ_SRC"/&gt; &lt;/action&gt; &lt;!-- Impala invalidate/refresh metadata --&gt; &lt;action name="impala-refresh-iis"&gt; &lt;shell xmlns="uri:oozie:shell-action:0.3"&gt; &lt;exec&gt;impala-command.sh&lt;/exec&gt; &lt;argument&gt;${keyTabName}&lt;/argument&gt; &lt;argument&gt;${keyTabUsername}&lt;/argument&gt; &lt;argument&gt;${impala_server}&lt;/argument&gt; &lt;argument&gt;refresh belltv_expl.bxdb_sproc_cataloguereport&lt;/argument&gt; &lt;file&gt;${nameNode}/${keyTabLocation}/${keyTabName}&lt;/file&gt; &lt;/shell&gt; &lt;ok to="end"/&gt; &lt;error to="fail"/&gt; &lt;/action&gt; &lt;action name="sendEmailDQ_SRC"&gt; &lt;email xmlns="uri:oozie:email-action:0.1"&gt; &lt;to&gt;${emailList}&lt;/to&gt; &lt;subject&gt;Error in the workflow please verify&lt;/subject&gt; &lt;body&gt;BXDB project returned an error please verify&lt;/body&gt; &lt;/email&gt; &lt;ok to="fail"/&gt; &lt;error to="fail"/&gt; &lt;/action&gt; &lt;kill name="fail"&gt; &lt;message&gt;"BXDB ingestion failure"&lt;/message&gt; &lt;/kill&gt; &lt;end name='end'/&gt; &lt;/workflow-app&gt;</PRE><P>command to run &nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>oozie job -abc.properties -run</P> Mon, 03 Apr 2017 03:23:31 GMT gimp077 2017-04-03T03:23:31Z